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Centre throws up hands
The Centre here on Wednesday threw up its hands in disgust over the dogged stands of AP and Telangana over Krishna water management and suggested to them to get the issue resolved with ‘\'cool heads.\' The TS and AP Irrigation Ministers will meet on Thursday and make yet another effort to amicably resolve the issue.
New Delhi: The Centre here on Wednesday threw up its hands in disgust over the dogged stands of AP and Telangana over Krishna water management and suggested to them to get the issue resolved with ‘'cool heads.' The TS and AP Irrigation Ministers will meet on Thursday and make yet another effort to amicably resolve the issue.
Having failed to either infuse confidence in both the States that it was up to the job, or in convincing them on a way out, the Water Resources Ministry, which stepped in Tuesday morning to mediate, finally realised its helplessness only to ask the two States to amicably resolve the dispute to the mutual agreement within a month or so.
It also suggested that, in the meanwhile, the two States could continue to share the waters as per the previous year's agreement, though this has come to an end by June 18. The contentious issue could not see both the sides arrive at a common ground on Krishna Waters Management or on the jurisdiction issues of the Water Management Board.
Special Secretary of the Water Resources Ministry Amarjeet Singh went ahead and informed the Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati about the impasse, consequent to which, the latter asked the Irrigation Ministers of the two States, Devineni Uma Maheswar Rao and T Harish Rao, who were here on a different assignment (attending a meeting of the National Water Development Agency), to personally iron out differences in the evening.
However, the meeting which was expected to last at least an hour, collapsed in five minutes, signalling that the trouble would continue to brew for a long time. Tuesday’s meeting of nearly 10 and a half hours saw the two sides sticking to their arguments-AP demanding that the water allocation be brought under the jurisdiction of the Board and Telangana ruling it out asking the Board to confine to its stated objective and with each State accusing the other of illegality and irrationality in the utilisation of the waters of not only Krishna but also of Godavari River.
